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Leave posted:Why do they rarely film movies in chronological order? What therattle said but to elaborate a bit: When scheduling a film initially there'll be certain constraints already in place. The First Assistant Director will place the scenes to be shot each day into an order that makes the most sense logistically. What makes sense artistically rarely enters the picture. Sometimes actors and directors prefer to start with chronologically earlier scenes to ease into the characters, so the performance isn't wildly out of whack if it takes a few days to find the vibe and you shot the climax of the movie first. Then they'll usually group scenes logically. Each location lumped together. Night scenes grouped together. This is because jumping from day to night hours constantly is a long and annoying and expensive process involving a gradual shifting of shooting hours, which fucks your crew and cast up. If you've got a particularly high profile cast member in a supporting role, you'll often try to lump their scenes together to make the production cheaper, as actors are normally paid a weekly salary. Plus a whole plethora of other constraints you might have been given by the producers when coming on board. Then once that schedule is distributed to the rest of the crew early in pre-production, you'll get a bunch more constraints applied to your shoot. The location manager tells you oops actually the Manor will only allow us to shoot at certain times in certain rooms, so that'll necessitate a scene order change. The Director of Photography might tell you you can't shoot a certain scene at a certain time of day because the sun won't be in the right place in the sky for what they want, so that scene's getting moved. The makeup designer might tell you that putting X and Y scenes next to each other is a bad idea as the characters in them have been rained on way earlier in the schedule and to shoot actors wet then dry takes ages to reset. So you've got to flip the scenes. And so on and so forth, each department or producer or actor inputting their own requirements and details to your schedule, til voila! A finished schedule that orders your entire film into a logical and efficient shooting order that keeps every department happy and working hard. ...until your actor gets covid, or falls off a bench, or food poisoning and suddenly you can't film his scenes tomorrow and uh oh time to rearrange everything! Hope it still makes sense for everyone when you're adjusting it at 9pm after a full 14 hour day on set. Oh and did I mention that film scheduling is still done on an incredibly outdated piece of software that essentially holds the film industry at ransom now as its very much still 'the way its always been done'? A janky unintuitive mess that industry veterans still struggle with. It's a real tough thing to do and it flies so under the radar. Yes I am an AD so I'm very protective of the skills involved (and its a department that most people don't really know what it does).
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